12th anniversary of Philippines Internet

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12 years of internet in the Philippines? Fine I’m late in this. Belated happy 12th anniversary to us. Pinoy bloggers are talking about it here , here and here

My internet history dates back to circa 1995. Don’t you just miss the modem’s hissing sound as it cranks to connect to your good old ISP? Internet service providers were so expensive then. My first internet provider was Virtual Asia. It was 500 pesos for 15 hours! Not even enough time to browse. The first online person I knew in the real world was Ken Ilio, a batchmate in the university. After so many years, we finally reconnected using this new technology. Then I got to meet Manuel Viloria through Virtual Asia.

roboticaMy first web project was in 1996, an Internet Safety Page for World Kids Network (WKN), a children’s fun website. See that icon to the right? That ‘s supposed to be me, the Internet Safety Head for WKN and a Kid Coach. I was known as Robotica by kids around the world. The site had a mini tutorial on creating webpages and I wrote that page in notepad. Writing about The 10 Golden Rules on Internet Safety was greatly inspired by my own parenting experience with my children . Oh yes, I had a lot of good and bad internet experiences.

My stint with WKN lasted only till 1999. By that time, I had learned enough about basic HTML, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and how the world wide web worked.

From Virtual Asia, I transferred services to Compass Internet in 1997 then Sky Internet in 1998. In the latter part of 1999, I finally got a cable connection, Destiny Cable . That was such a novelty. I think they are the first broadband internet provider. I still use them until now. Wow, that’s 7 years. I deserve a Loyalty Award.

Those were the days. Now what will our kids say in 10 years?


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  • http://www.kurokuroatbp.blogspot.com Toe

    12 years of Internet? I can’t believe I’m so behind. I’ve been using dial-up until just about a couple of months ago. And I still don’t get HLMT or HMLT or… whatever that is. :) Got a lot of catching up!

  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com noemi

    With so many editors now, HTML is not that hard to do. You’ll learn as you blog. You pick up lessons here and there.

  • http://www.digitalfilipino.com Janette Toral

    Hi Noemi. I’m amazed that you are so loyal to your ISP after all this time. Bihira na ang kagaya mo.

  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com noemi

    Janette: the deal was really good. Fast internet and 2 TV cable connection for just 1900 a month. Today I pay 1,688 because I don’t use the TV. The cable tv wasn’t that great when STAR tv network was removed. Destiny Cable needs to give me a Loyalty award.